rakehood

noun

"rakehood" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“rakehood” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
8
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - immoral behaviour

Corpus desk

Index EN-rakehood · rakehood · English

rakehood · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "R" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Key facts for rakehood
PropertyValue
Headwordrakehood
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “rakehood” in English

rakehoodranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

rakehood is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "immoral behaviour".

rakehood has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

Etymologically, the entry records: From rake + -hood. The correct English form is rakehood, spelled R-A-K-E-H-O-O-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    immoral behaviour

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how rakehood appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Could I convert virgins to nymphomania? Masturbators to rakehood? Faithful wives to adulteresses? Seducers to ascetics? Very doubtful. But possible.

Etymology

From rake + -hood.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rakehood"?
"rakehood" is spelled R-A-K-E-H-O-O-D.
What does "rakehood" mean?
As a noun, "rakehood" means: immoral behaviour
What is the origin of the word "rakehood"?
From rake + -hood. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list